San Diego: [Kathy Acker], 1973. Saddle-stapled in printed self-wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 28pp. Printed in blue on tan paperstock. The sixth volume (of six total) of Acker's serially self-published first novel, issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single-volume trade edition by TVRT Press in 1975.....
Chicago: American Library Association, 1933. Saddle-stapled in typographic wraps. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4". 64 pp. In 1933, Dr. Alain Locke was asked to write this booklet on African-American history and survey of sociology, which was accompanied by a glossary of recommended books to assist in his course by Edwin R. Embree.....
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover in printed dust jacket. Black cloth with decorative titles in gold. Mustard end papers. xliii, 270pp; b&w illus. The first published collection of the fourteen Holy Books received by English occultist and writer Aleister Crowley (1875-1947); the central text of.....
New York, New York: Harper, 1958. Jacket design by Leo Manso. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth with white lettering and illustration on black spine in pictorial jacket, 183 pp.
Japan: Gakken, 1985. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, some fraying along front edge of spine, light shelving and handling wear. Slipcase is in good condition, some rubbing and light fraying along edges and front and rear panel of case, light soiling, still sturdy.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Jacket design by Larry Lurin. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, brown end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp. The first and only novel from Pulitzer Prize nominated Boston Globe journalist and social justice activist, Bryant Rollins, published.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, second printing. 12mo Hardcover, quarter yellow cloth over patterned boards with a mounted title plate to top board and spine, 108 pp. First collection from the young poet who helped ignite the powderkeg that was the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen began publishing to.....
New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover octavo. Light blue boards backed with black cloth with metallic blue decorative titling to spine. 467 pp. First Edition of Foster Wallace's debut novel, which went through a print run of just 1300. Scarce by any means, especially copies such as this which.....
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1980. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 130pp. Inscribed at his p. 13 contribution (a single poem) by Donald Britton: "Love to Kenward [Elmslie], Donald 3/31/80". Donald Britton was a New York and later Los Angeles-based poet who died of AIDS complications in.....
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1910. Hardcover [octavo] red cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 64 pp. Well-known member of Boston and New York high society for yachting, racing and social exploits. This is the first book of verse she published when she was 22 years old...
Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, S.A., 1963. First edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 65 pp.
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. Signature-bound [octavo] in pictorial wrappers. 76 pp. Scarce copy of Cardenal's first book published in the English language. Ernesto Cardenal, one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, was an artist, poet, and priest. Highly active in the Sandinistan revolution, his.....
![Item #3960 The Puerto Rican Diaspora : Themes in the Survival of a People [Signed]. Frank Espada](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3960.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789658655)
[San Francisco]: Frank Espada, 2006. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French wraps. Oblong quarto. 191pp; b&w plates. Photobook by Puerto Rican photojournalist and community organizer Frank Espada (1930–2014) documenting Puerto Rican communities across the United States and the archipelago. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, with texts by Espada throughout, along with brief.....
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Jacket by Ellen Raskin. First Edition. Hardcover octavo navy cloth boards with light blue spine framing and gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 345 pp. True first edition of author's scarce second novel published by Doubleday in 1966.
![Item #3597 Siqueiros [typewritten MS with holograph notations]. Hugo Gellert](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3597.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741132175)
n.p., [ca 1965]. Working draft copy. Single-sided manuscript pages (8-1/2 x 11 inches) recto-only, pp.1-3 carbon copy paper, p. 4 two fragmentary typewritten sheets glued together. Pen and pencil notations and edits throughout, all in Gellert's hand. Mostly carbon-copy manuscript with holograph notation from the artist Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), one.....
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1911. First edition. Disbound saddle-staple binding, octavo (4-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches) in illustrated blue wraps, [1], 45, [46: ads] pp. Editorial pamphlet of de Angulo's (1887-1950) review of Madrid psychology professor, L. Simarro's (1851-1921) two-volume work on "The Trial of Ferrer and European.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1963. First printing. Signature-bound octavo in illustrated wraps, 277 pp. Uncorrected proof first printing of John A. Williams' 3rd novel Sissie.
Germany: [Self-published], 1969. First printing. Hardcover [octavo], cream cloth boards, black titles, pictorial dust jacket, [416]. Castillejo's 30-year service as a Spanish diplomat based out of Washington, D.C., afforded his travel to Algiers, Benin, Madrid and Stuttgart. He self-published the first printing of The Book of i's during a 1969.....
New York]: [Boke Press], [1967]. First Edition. Softcover quarto, staple-bound in B&W paper wrappers, unpaginated with text and drawings on rectos [24]. Twelve pages each of text and poems for each month of the calendar year, 1967. While Elmslie and Brainard would go on to collaborate many times, this is.....
n.p. n.p., [ca 1940]. Carbon-copy typescript (8-1/2 x 11 inches) with holograph corrections in pencil. Typed to recto only. 3pp. Draft typescript from Civil Rights leader and longtime director of the National Urban League, Lester B. Granger (1896-1976) on African-American boxing legends Sam Langford and Jack Johnson. After a childhood.....
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960. Drawing by R LaVigne. First Edition of 500. Saddle-stapled (6.25 x 8 inches) in printed card wrappers. 6pp with [1]pp illustration. Scarce first book from the enigmatic Beat and San Francisco Renaissance poet Lew Welch (1926-1971), whose brief literary career continues to have a resounding.....
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Oatmeal cloth with titles in black to spine and top board. Illustrated end papers, black topstain. [128]pp; b&w illus. The first novel by American writer and architect Madeline Gins (1941-2014); a high-point of American experimental literature. With drawings.....
Newark: Revolutionary Communist League (M.L.M.), [1977]. Side-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated black and white wraps, [14] pp. The Revolutionary Communist League (of Newark) formed in 1974, evolving there out of the continued black liberation and black nationalist movement, geographically-specific of the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Ashtabula, OH: Morrison Swift, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6 x 9-1/4 inches). Brown cloth with decorative blindstamping to boards. 126pp. Inscribed by author. Early collection of writings from turn-of-the-20th-century anarchist / libertarian thinker and science fiction author Morrison I. Swift (1856-1946), here with a presentation inscription from Swift to.....
Hollywood: Bizarre Productions, 1969. Saddle-stapled offset printed quarto (8-1/4 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, 32 pp. Catalog of pioneering filmmaker, photographer and militant gay rights activist Pat Rocco (1934 - 2018) and his Bizarre Productions, which was active from the late 1960s through the 1970s and produced dozens of.....